The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) is now hosting one of its most thought-provoking exhibitions to date: Constellation of Complicity, curated by the Myanmar Peace Museum. On view at the Main Gallery, 8th floor, this powerful transnational exhibition invites visitors to step into a universe where authoritarianism is not abstract—but palpable.
“Authoritarianism does not exist in isolation. It is relational, rehearsed, and often quietly sustained.”
This is the premise behind Constellation of Complicity, an exhibition that brings together artists from Myanmar, Iran, Russia, Syria, Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Uyghur diaspora—each confronting the ripple effects of state violence, systemic oppression, and exile.
“Each work offers a form of resistance: ritual as remembrance, satire as subversion, testimony as structure.”
The exhibition’s title evokes a sky of connections: “Constellation” speaks to how these acts of violence and control are not isolated, but interconnected—across borders, across regimes. “Complicity” reveals that power is often upheld not through spectacle, but through silent alignment, consent, and participation. Together, the works form a constellation—a shifting network of entanglements, complicities, and quiet alignments that destabilize power as a fixed idea and reveal it instead as a living web.
Through immersive installations, photography, soundscapes, and spatial interventions, the exhibition traces the shared infrastructures and subtle choreographies of contemporary state violence—arms deals, surveillance technologies, diplomatic legitimization, and cultural erasure.
Rather than offering a single narrative, the exhibition prompts visitors to reflect on their own place within the entangled systems of power it reveals—urging attentiveness, accountability, and above all, solidarity.
Constellation of Complicity: Featured Artists
Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng Yee Man
Hong Kong / United Kingdom
Founders of C & G Artpartment in Hong Kong (2007), Clara and Gum create participatory art addressing social and cultural issues. Their international presence includes exhibitions at the Shanghai and Singapore Biennales. After relocating to the UK in 2021, they reopened their space in Sheffield, fostering dialogue on Hongkonger identity and socially engaged art practices.
Khaled Dawwa
Syria / France
Syrian visual artist Khaled Dawwa explores memory, displacement, and trauma through evocative sculptures. His works symbolize resilience amidst political upheaval and have been exhibited widely, including solo shows at Galerie Claude Lemand (Paris) and Galerie Reichmanns (Belgium), and major exhibitions at Musée du Louvre-Lens and Christie’s.
Mukaddas Mijit
Uyghur / France
Ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and researcher Mukaddas Mijit highlights Uyghur diaspora experiences through her artistic and scholarly work. Her recent film Nikah (2023) addresses the pressures Uyghur women face due to political repression, while her innovative research at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) pushes the boundaries of ethnographic methodologies.
Sai ▇▇▇
Myanmar / Exile
A Shan artist in exile following Myanmar's 2021 military coup, Sai's work uses installations, sound, and smuggled artefacts to address political violence and human rights abuses. His acclaimed project Trails of Absence confronts state terror, and he co-founded the Myanmar Peace Museum to document atrocities and advocate internationally, including testimonies before the US Congress and UK Parliament.
SACCA
Myanmar
Formed after Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, SACCA is a collective of photographers courageously documenting life under military dictatorship. Committed to truth-telling, SACCA ensures global visibility for the stories of resilience and resistance in Myanmar, despite intense persecution and censorship.
Taisiya Krugovykh & Vasily Bogatov
Russia / France
Collaborative artists Taisiya and Vasily challenge state violence and censorship with politically charged film and installations. Their projects, including collaborations with Memorial and Pussy Riot, critically expose authoritarianism and militarism. Their recent work, In the Mother’s Arms, transforms a Russia-Myanmar arms contract into a poignant lullaby installation.
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron
Tibet / United States
Transgender Tibetan writer, artist, and educator based in New York City, Paldron examines global and Tibetan issues through decolonial perspectives. Notable projects include the comic book A Capacity to Change, a cross-border collaboration advocating transgender equality, and Tibet x Decolonial Atlas, a digital archive project.
Toomaj Salehi
Iran
Iranian rapper and activist Toomaj Salehi uses his music to openly challenge Iran’s oppressive regime. Despite imprisonment, torture, and facing the death penalty for "corruption on Earth," he remains a prominent figure of resistance, receiving international recognition such as the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent (2024).
Shahrzad Orang
Iran / Australia
Digital artist and activist based in Sydney, Shahrzad Orang uses visual storytelling to amplify Iranian resistance movements. Her work blends protest and symbolism, deeply engaged with the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, confronting state violence and honoring martyrs.
Karla Mohtashemi
Iran
Multidisciplinary artist Karla Mohtashemi's four-decade career spans murals, digital art, performance, and advocacy. Drawing from Persian heritage, she merges traditional aesthetics with contemporary methods, actively using her art for community engagement, education, and creative resistance.
The Myanmar Peace Museum
Founded in exile after the 2021 military coup, the Myanmar Peace Museum is a transnational, artist-led initiative that reimagines curation as care, remembrance, and resistance. Instead of closure, it offers testimony. Instead of reconciliation, it proposes the right to remember—and to resist. Its exhibitions foreground artists living under regimes of silence, forging a shared vocabulary of survival across fractured geographies.
“The Myanmar Peace Museum does not speak on behalf of the oppressed,” reads their curatorial statement. “It speaks from within the conditions of their survival. It does not offer a narrative of peace as reconciliation, but peace as the right to remember, to resist and to reimagine what justice must yet become.”
The exhibition invites viewers to examine their own position within the global entanglements of power. It asks us to listen. To recognize. To take responsibility. And above all — to stand in solidarity.
On view until 19 October 2025
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)
